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Hooray-Hooray it’s a DOUBLE LENS DAY at the Wednesday Adorama daily deals running in the Pacific time zone or earlier if sold out:
+ Tokina 11-20mm f2.8 CF atx-i for $379 in Canon EF or Nikon F
+ Sigma 60-600mm f4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports for $1749 after in-cart coupon in Sony E
+ the Leica L does not have the in-cart coupon
+ Canon SELPHY Square QX10 Compact Photo Printer, Black for $99
+ SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless Gaming Headset for $249
Cider Wednesday is here, drink up your organic apple cider vinegar (with the mother!). Yes, we are a health champion blog now, no more Doritos deep-fried in hexane-overloaded seed oils and served with vegan whip cream 😉
We start with the B&H Photo daily deals that have lens …babies:
+ Lensbaby Pro Kit for $700 in Canon EF and RF, Nikon Z and EF, Fuji X, M43rds, and Sony E
+ consists of Swap System case plus three Optics:
+ Velvet 85mm f/1.8
+ Burnside 35mm f/2.8
+ Twist 60mm f/2.5
+ 2-pack of LEXAR 128GB Professional 2000x UHS-II SDXC for $170 after in-cart coupon
+ optionally buy together with Lexar USB-C dual-slot card reader for $187
+ SpyderX Mobile Pro Kit for $125
+ EasyRIG Minimax with Quick Release for $999
+ easy name, not so easy price 😉
+ Delkin Fat Gecko Dual-Suction Camera Mount for $40
+ GEnARAY SSL-50 Soft Strip Daylight LED Light (4 x 50″) for $270
+ also Eartec headset type thing
+ FLASH DEAL: Manfrotto 143A Magic Arm with Camera Bracket for $100
WOOT’s fond of round-ups these days, they have another Best Of Tech deal that includes a truly random assortment of technology items, from Masquarades to Spectrum Analyzers (!).
Lighting on Location is the 5-hour headliner class free-streaming at 12pm ET on Wedn at Creative LIVE On-AIR with Rick Friedman…
Yes dear readers, we have back to back LENZE DAYZE [yes, I’m trying to make the spelling of this even more irritating] at the Adorama daily deals:
+ Tokina 100mm f2.8 MACRO atx-i for $329 in Canon EF or Nikon F
+ Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 DC DN Contemporaries for $499 in Sony E and Leica L
+ the Leica L actually gets a FREE bundle of lens accessories (including filters kit) and Corel software
+ Sachtler Adapter for aktiv 100mm Head/Slider for $85~
More Tuesday action, the headliner at Woot is an Apple sale featuring MacBooks, Retina displays, iMacs, iPads, and Mac Mini. It’s a mix of new condition and refurbished, check each listing. A total of 17 options are available. Some of the products are of the M1 generation, some are older. Prices range from $150 to $3200.
If you are wondering what on earth would cost just $150, well, it’s the eternally undying iPad 4 Mini! A 32GB Wifi + cellular in refurbished condition.
A number of things have already sold-out but many continue in the wild randomness that is Woot’s Cyber Monday Markdowns.
MEANwhile at Woot’s mother company, the Amazon Gold Box is like a fountain that keeps sprouting deals. Among them is a deal on shiny Breville espresso machines and other kitchen appliances. Don’t look – you may not be able to resist the temptation 🙂
AND FINALLY on the e-learning front, the headliner free streaming class starting at 12pm ET on Tuesday at Creative LIVE On-AIR is a 8.5 hour class “Lighting 301” with Pye Jirsa and The SLR Lounge Experience. Given the length, it will air twice in full.
Cyber Monday is over, here comes Cider Tuesday! Time for some fearsomely strong cider at The Quill and Tankard 🙂
We start with the B&H Photo daily deals good until Tuesday 11/28/23 at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if soldout) in the 7+1 formation:
+ Tilta Mirage Matte Box with Top Flag and Pocket Follow Focus Kit for $119
+ CaseLOGIC Viso Camera Backpack (Medium) for $50
+ all the new purchases are gonna need new bags to bag them 🙂
+ InterFIT Honey Badger 320Ws 2-Light Kit (2LK) for $430
+ Benro MeFOTO BackPacker Classic Aluminum Travel Tripod with Ball Head (Titanium) for $60
+ yes, our favorite emo Jedi is back!
+ still waiting for Disney to create a TV series for him!
+ at least a one-off mini-series!
+ HYPER docking stations and hubs, six options, from $50 to $175
+ yes, docking stations are becoming computers in their own right these days 😉
+ 2TB Delkin POWER CFexpress Type B Memory Card for $399
+ CoreSWX batteries, four options (V or Gold), $195 to $249
+ FLASH DEAL: SmallRiG SiMoRR Vigor VK-50 Vlog Kit (White) for $20
+ or you can cannibalize it for its accessorapalooza
+ still waiting for a Marie Kondo book on photography accessories organization 😉
IF YOU missed out on the Black Cyber 4-day weekend, fear not, many of the offerings CONTINUE at B&H Photo…
IF you like affordable tshirts with an attitude and personality (with smart and goofy text and designs), for Cyber Monday only, coupon code CM25OFF gets you 25% off at Six Dollar Shirts. I bought quite a few tshirts from them through the years and they are all in pretty good condition years later! T-shirt prices start at $7 such as this adorkable “I’m not procrastinating, it’s a Side Quest” 🙂
The Adorama daily deals have a special treat for Cyber Monday CaNikoNian shoppers, a LENZE DAYE:
+ Tokina atx-i 11-16mm CF f/2.8 for $329 in Canon F or Nikon EF
+ oops, it’s Cyber Monday, not April Fool’s Day, Canon EF or Nikon F
+ Flashpoint eVOLV 200 TTL Pocket Flash with Barndoor Kit Built-in R2 2.4GHz Radio Remote System (Godox AD200) for $229
+ SmallRig VB99 99Wh Mini V-Mount Li-Ion Battery for $152 AC
+ Flashpoint eVOLV 200 Pro Kit With S200 Stick Flash Head and Belt case for $499
Cyber Monday Doorbusters at Monoprice and coupon CYBER15 gets you $15 off orders of $50+.
NOT to be left behind, NewEgg has its own Cyber Monday sale. CAUTION if you have a big monitor or bright color settings, it’s blind-o-vision and permanent retina damage colors! 😉
The headliner Woot daily deals is a BAG the BAGS sale, but not of the camera kind. Of the luggage/travel kind!
TIRED of spending and prefer something ZERO COST to you – as lizard-people loving Andrew Huberman likes to say? The headliner Creative Live on-air free-streaming class starting at 12pm ET is “Get Started with Lifestyle Family Photography” with Elena S Blair, 4 hours and 45 minutes long, so multiple reruns through the day.
The Cyber Monday at Amazon looks exactly like the regular Gold Box but it says Cyber Monday instead 😉
Over 200 ebooks from famous authors make up the Cyber Monday Kindle daily deals. Because reading is fun-da-mental. OR you can do like I do – read the Kindle sample and imagine the rest of the book. This way, you will never be disappointed with the ending 🙂
Like books but don’t have time or eye-energy to read? Audible has a Cyber Monday sale of their DRM-y audiobooks as well!
Speaking of learning, Rosetta Stone is offering a lifetime membership to all 25 (actually 23) of their languages for a one-time payment of $149. 23 because it has two Englishes (US, UK) and two Spanishes (Spain and Latin America).
Be sure to empty your schedule today, because the B&H Cyber Monday deals consists of 21,471 different options! Your homework is to go through them all and write a 2000 word essay 😉
You can filter them in various different ways at the Cyber Monday page, by brand, product type and sub-type, price, rating, best seller status, new-ness, reward promotions, etc.
And now I will begin listing below all 21,471 products, along with a 500 word review-summary for each product 🙂
Get Your Apple Cider Vinegar ready, it’s Cider Monday! And it’s a day of bundles of bundles at the B&H Photo daily deals for Monday 11/27/23:
+ Tripods, Monopods, and Heads, 50 options, $8 to $850
+ includes Gitzo, Benro, Manfrotto, and SmallRIG
+ On-Camera and Production Monitors, 30 options, $99 to $4799
+ includes Atomos, Liliput, SmallHD, FeelWorld, PortKEYS
+ Computer Monitors, 13 options, $60 to $750
+ includes LG and other major brands
+ Lighting gear and accessories, 39 options, $30 to $2300
+ includes SmallRIG, amaran, Lowel, GVM, Nanlite, Genaray, etc
+ 16.2″ MacBook Pro with M1 Max Chip (Late 2021) for $2199 (32GB, 1TB) to $2499 (64GB, 2TB)
+ 64GB RAM, where are you Bill Gates of early MS-DOS fame? 🙂
+ M1 Max 10-Core Chip
+ 32GB Unified RAM, 1TB SSD
+ 3456×2234 Liquid Retina XDR
+ 32-Core GPU, 16-Core Neural Engine
+ ACER 16″ Predator Helios 16 Gaming Laptop for $1299 (i7) or $1800 (i9)
+ 16GB or 32GB DDR5
+ 1TB SSD
+ 2560 x 1600 240 Hz IPS
+ GeForce RTX 4070 GPU (8GB GDDR6) or 4080 (12GB)
+ but some may say: Ryzen OR Die Tryin’
+ PElican Vault V200 Medium Case with Lid Foam and Dividers (Black) for $60
+ FLASH DEAL: LG G3 77″ 4K HDR Smart OLED evo TV for $3000 after in-cart coupon
Sunday, aka Cyber Monday Eve, aka Cider Monday, brings us a fresh trio of offerings at the Adorama daily deals:
+ Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan 1-Year Subscription with 1TB Storage, Download for $120
+ “Download” in this case means that you won’t receive something by physical mail
+ Flashpoint XPLOR 600 R2 HSS TTL Battery-Powered All-In-One Outdoor Flash for $449
+ SmallRig AD-100 FreeBlazer Heavy-Duty Carbon Fiber Tripod with Video Head for $319
Yes, Small Business Saturday sponsored by AMEX (nothing says small business like American Express LOL) is over, and now we arrive at Rest and Digest Sunday 😉
We start with the B&H Photo daily deals good until 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out, and it’s a glorious LENZE DAYE for CaNiKoNians (and Adapteraholics):
+ Vello BATTERY GRIPS, 30 options for select Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic GH-series, Black magic, Fuji X, cameras
+ more than 30 camera models are covered, for example, one Vello Grip is compatible with six different Sony a-series cameras, another is good for four Canon R-series cameras, and so forth
+ prices range between $36 to $80
+ the above link is a daily-deal type, it may stop working after the promotion ends
+ Sigma 12-24mm f4 DG HSM Art for $799 in Canon EF or Nikon F
+ a full-frame f4 wide zoom for $800, OH MY!
+ 16TB Seagate IronWolf Pro 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5″ Internal NAS HDD (CMR) for $200 after in-cart coupon
+ that’s around $12.5 per TB
+ PGYTech One series backpacks, three options, $110 to $140
+ BlackRapid Curve Breathe Bundle (Special 50th Anniversary Edition) for $80
+ Genaray RGB-6X3S On-Camera RGB LED Light Panel for $40
+ FLASH DEAL: Sennheiser EW-DP ME 2 SET Camera-Mount Digital Wireless Omni Lavalier Mic System (R1-6: 520 to 576 MHz) for $399
FREE-streaming at Creative LIVE starting at 12pm ET on Sunday is a nearly 3-hour long class “Creative Composites Using Your Own Photo Stock” with Karen Alsop…
There are hundreds (if not thousands) of cameras and lenses options participating in the Black Cyber festivities, and it’s humanly impossible to list them all here, or even mention something from each participating brand. If you want to get a good look at all the options, broken down by manufacturer, here is the B&H Photo Camera and Lens Ground Control. It links to the listings of 21 different camera (the usual suspects) and lens manufacturers (Zeiss, the Japanese Trio, Voigtlander, the Chinese Invasion, etc).
AND now lettuce take a look at the world of Sony E-system full frame cameras with the a7 III body only offered for $1498 as body only and $1698 with the 28-70mm at authorized Sony dealers.
Then there’s the optional $50 mail-in rebate for registering the camera with Sony. You can upload the barcodes and receipt but the $50 will be mailed to you in 6-8 weeks as a physical prepaid VISA card. Thus the “mail-in” part. Good luck 🙂 This promotion covers a lot of Sony gear, $50 per item.
At B&H Photo the FREEbies are a 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC, a Watson battery and a Lowepro Nova bag.
MEANwhile at Adorama, you have four different options of bundles. One of them comes with the Flashpoint R2 TTL on-camera flash, BUT if you want to fill up your basement with camera accessories, the aforelinked “Premium Kit” has 13 (!) FREEbies including a 64GB Extreme SDXC, camera bag, Tripod, charger stuff, remote shutter releases, Corel software, and more!
Continuing with the Black Cyber options that run until CybeR Monday 11/27/23 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out, if you want to dive into the world of Nikon Z APS-C, the Z50 body only is on sale for a limited time for $757 at B&H Photo (no freebies) but if you want some basic FREEbies, at Adorama you get a 64GB Sandisk SDXC, bag, Corel software and a couple of trinkety accessories.
ON the same listings above, you will also find the “with 16-50mm” kit for $897, and for this, B&H has FREEbies (64GB Extreme PRO and bag), while Adorama has its usual Accessorapalooza!
Fascinating how Canon and Nikon managed to have between them eight different active camera systems 🙂
Canon mirrorless time now of the full frame kind! The Canon R5 Body only is offered for $2999 while the kit with the Canon RF 24-105mm f4L IS USM goes for $4099. But the retailers below are also bundling it with FREEbies:
+ at B&H Photo you get a 2TB Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD V2
+ at Adorama you have analysis-paralysis of FOUR different FREEbie bundle options: one of them includes their house brands Flashpoint Monolight, another includes Capture ONE, another includes a Tripod, and another includes a CFexpress card
MEANwhile the Canon R5 C body only goes for $3399, while the “with 24-105” kit goes for a similar +$1100. B&H doesn’t have any FREEbies on these, but you have FIVE different OPTIONS of bundles at Adorama!!!
Good until 11/27/23 at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out), B&H Photo is offering the new condition Olympus E-M1 Mark III body only for $999.
The kit with the 12-45mm f4 lens goes for $1499, while the kit with the 40-150mm f4 goes for $1699. You can find them all on the aforelinked listing.
“Take Pictures With” bundles can be a good idea when jumping into a new camera system or as gifts for beginners and such. Which brings us to the Panasonic G100 bundled with the 12-32mm f3.5-5.6 lens and with a choice of FREEbies for $498.
+ at B&H Photo you get as FREEbies the Panasonic DMW-SHGR1 tripod grip, a Ruggard bag and a 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO UHS-I SDXC
+ at Adorama you have the customary accessorapalooza that includes Corel software, Green Extreme extra charger & battery, 32GB Sandisk, bag, etc, etc, etc
+ as usual with Panasonic, you can optionally increase the original warranty from 1 to 3 years by taking action (PDF details at each authorized dealer as usual)
If you are tempted by the Fuji X-S* series, good until 11/27/23 at 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out), B&H Photo is offering a Fuji X-S10 body-only bundle with a Ruggard bag and a 128GB Sandisk Extreme PRO UHS-I SDXC card for $899. That’s the same price elsewhere but without the two freebies.
For +$400 you can get it with the 18-55mm lens and the same two freebies.
If you are a fan of more budget-priced lenses, the TT Artisan Lenses are on sale for the Black Cyber weekend at Adorama (92 options) and Amazon (with Prime Exclusive discounts) and at B&H Photo (148 options). Be sure to price-check each lens of interest at each retailer, as they are too many to list here individually. At B&H, prices start at $49.50 (for the 25mm f2 in various systems).
TTArtisan has certainly grown up through the years. Now they have all kinds of lenses, including a few tilt-shift, Auto Focus, giant telephotos, pancakes, various system options (including Hasselblad X) and lots of Leica M-series, including …GOLD!
Black Friday actual is over, but the party continues because now we are orbiting Planet Cyber Monday. Or Cider Monday if you happen to drink Apple Cider Vinegar that day 😉
We start with the Saturday Adorama daily deals for 11/25/23 – yes, one month to XMAS 23!
+ Lexar CFexpress Type B USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Reader for $32 after in-cart coupon
+ Flashpoint XPLOR 100 Pro TTL R2 Battery-Powered Monolight for $179
+ Lexar Diamond Series Professional 128GB CFexpress Type-B for $150 after in-cart couponization
+ 256GB for $280 after in-cart couponization
It’s Microsoft Day at Woot with Surface laptops and tablets on sale, along with various Microsoft software. Already two of the Surfaces have sold out.
IF YOU WANT to take a break from deal chasing, starting at 12pm ET on Saturday, the free-streaming headliner at Creative LIVE On-AIR is a 15-hour class “The Art of Filmmaking and Editing” with Jeff Medford, Ross Hockrow…
Good until the end of day on 11/27/23, B&H Photo is offering a new M3 PRO Macbook too, not just previous year models! For $1749 you can get the Apple 14″ MacBook Pro (M3 Pro, Space Black) with 18GB unified RAM, 512GB SSD, 14-core GPU, 16-core Neural, 3024 x 1964 Liquid Retina XDR, 11-core M3 PRO processor, Wifi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, Thunderbolt 4, MagSafe 3, SDXC slot, backlit keyboard, Touch ID sensor, etc, etc, etc.
Good until the end of day on 11/27/23, eBay is offering 20% off on select products using coupon code HOLIDAYSAVES20 over there. The maximum discount is $500. You can use the coupon twice during the promotional period.e
If you are looking for an APS-C f1.8 zoom lens, B&H comes to the rescue with the new condition Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 DC HSM Art lens for $679 in Canon EF and Sigma SA and $668 in Nikon F. With a FREE Sigma 72mm UV protection filter.
As part of the Black Friday festivities, B&H Photo is offering the Capture One Pro 23 for $149 as either a download or a box with a download card.
Payboo is a B&H Photo store credit card issued by Comenity Capital Bank. And until 11/28/23, B&H Photo has an extra savings promotion when paying with the PayBoo credit card. The savings are an extra 5% to 10% off. Maximum quantity of 2 per item for this promotion.
For more details, check the Paubpp card page…
BorrowLenses is having its Black Friday sale as well! Until 12/6/23, you automatically (no coupon needed) get 25% off on PURCHASES of Used Gear. You also get free US shipping.
PS: for the speed-readers out there, the coupon is for PURCHASES, not rentals 🙂
And now lettuce round-up a few more of the Black Friday 2023 offerings!
We start with Shutterfly offering 50% off on almost everything on their website. BUT that’s not all. If you are part of their emailing list, you may have received an email that contains a one-time use coupon code [that’s why it’s a long string] that gets you $10 off an order of $10+. Shipping is extra and cannot be couponized.
The Monoprice website wouldn’t miss the party either! They offer $15 off on orders of $50+ using the very imaginative coupon code BF15 🙂
Just like Best Buy survived against all odds, so did Barnes and Noble, and they too are having a Black Friday with various promotions, including 50% off on some of the biggest book releases. They also have bonus offers for Rewards members, and all kinds of other things!
Despite wasting spending millions of dollars on the Lakers, Staples managed to survive 😉 And they too have a Black Friday sale. For Friday only, coupon code 63244 gets you 50% back in Staples Rewards on ALL ink purchases.
At Staples B&M stores ONLY (not listed online), they are offering the Fujifilm Instax Mini 12 instant camera for $70. Which becomes a better deal if you have Staples Rewards and/or Gift Cards to use/spend.
Next up we head on over to the Wal*Mart Black Friday where we find all kinds of deals for all budgets including $50 Gourmia shiny kitchen gadgets (air fryer, espresso machine, etc).
In terms of BF Cameras, they have some of the usual MAP offerings that you find in all retailers. Their headliner is a Fujifilm INSTAX Mini 7+ Bundle (10-Pack film, Album, Camera Case, Stickers) in three pastel color scheme options for $55. Camera IS included 🙂
And we close this round-up with the NameCheap offerings including domains (lesser known for $1/yr after coupon), web hosting deals from $10 to $30 (for the first year; future renewal at normal prices), and things like that.
Black Friday has also arrived at the chaotic Amazon Gold Box, a good test of your browser’s and computer’s crashing ability 😉
I already mentioned some of the offerings, let’s highlight a few for now, until we digest more of them later in the day:
+ Sandisk and Western Digital storage sale with SD, microSD, SSD, HDDs, flash sticks (including this 5pk of 128GB Ultra Fit USB 3.2 G1 Type A flash sticks for $60
+ 256GB Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I for $30
+ 256GB Extreme PRO CompactFlash UDMA7 for $135
+ Seagate and WD HDDs internal and external kind, along with LaCie
+ 20TB Seagate One Touch Hub for $330 (appears to include 4-months of Creative Cloud Photography Plan – I don’t know if it’s a free trial or appendable)
+ 21st century kitchen gadgets such as Air Fryers, Instant Pots, etc
+ 250+ Kindle ebooks because reading is fun-da-mental!
+ FREE to watch: first ever Black Friday NFL football game (NJ “GRRM” Jets vs Miami Dolphins) through the Prime Video apps and channels
+ all you need is an Amazon account, a Prime membership is not needed for this event
The KEH Camera website is keeping their Black Friday sale simple: use coupon BF10 or BF10A and get 10% off many things at their website until 11/27/23 at 11:59pm eastern time.
EXCLUDED from the offer are gift cards, “NEW” condition items, “Used – Like New”, “Used Like New Minus” and Protection Plans. And some product models. Their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies. This is typical of KEH coupon offers.
BUT if you are looking for some ideas on what to buy, they have created a Top Picks page. Note that items from this page may run out (eg different conditions unavailable) as KEH is selling used products that have small inventory (compared to retailers selling new condition products that have theoretically infinite inventory).
Photography means a lot of travel, planned and unplanned. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have a way to learn a language as needed, depending on your travels?
For Black Friday ONLY (11/24/23) Rosetta Stone is offering a Lifetime Membership for $150. You pay once, and you have access to 25 languages for a lifetime! No renewals! The list of languages is shown over there when you click on the little question-mark on the yellow “Includes 25 languages” button.
PS: the list of 25 includes two Englishes (UK and USA) and two Spanishes (Spain and Latin America). Chinese is offered in Mandarin only and Portuguese in the Brazilian flava.
Black Friday is ON at Adorama as well, with the variety of offers featuring in their proprietary cinemascope stack of deals. Too many to list here individually, more on them later in the day.
Plus, they have their daily deals for Friday:
+ Adobe Creative Cloud 1-Year Subscription, Download for $330
+ Flashpoint XPLOR 600 R2 HSS TTL Battery-Powered All-In-One Outdoor Flash for $449
+ Sachtler FSB 8 MK II Fluid Head with 75/2 Aluminum Tripod and Mid-Level Spreader for $2150
+ ESET Internet Security 1-Year Software License, 1-Device, Download for $25
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